How to Build Your Full-Stack Applications With CDK & AWS Amplify • Erik Hanchett • GOTO 2025

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Serverless 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOserverless
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Erik Hanchett - Senior Developer Advocate at AWS @ProgramWithErik 

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ABSTRACT
Building full-stack applications comes with a host of complexities. However, did you know with AWS Amplify you can now enjoy the benefits of authoring your frontend and backend completely with TypeScript and still leverage the underlying CDK and its ecosystem?

In this talk, we'll look at some new design patterns that you can leverage when building full-stack applications from start to finish. We’ll also look at how you can leverage AI to make this task even more straight forward. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:45 How can we make app development faster?
03:01 Let's create a story teller app
03:47 Demo
07:33 Story teller app
10:22 Infrastructure as code
11:44 What tools do we need?
14:48 AWS Amplify Gen 2
21:21 Demo
25:17 Outro

Read the full abstract here:
https://conferences.gotopia.tech/goto-serverless-bengaluru-2025/sessions/3865

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